Session One - The Great Apple Pie Quest
[2023/02/12 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me cracks knuckles
[2023/02/12 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetings Adventurers, some DMs give you pie hunts involving pies, I give you decapitated corpses.
[2023/02/12 15:17] Alicia Frakture: Leesha is still cooking so she doesn't see that
[2023/02/12 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: you may recall last time we left off in a small farm house, contents two corpses danging from the rafters in the bedroom, sans head filling.
[2023/02/12 15:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: Leesha is unfazed, Debben and the woman are badly shaken by the sight.
[2023/02/12 15:18] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ( those two GMing styles don't seem as disconnected as one might think.... )
[2023/02/12 15:19] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben backs up in a mild panic, fumbling for her spear. "Oh, whispering shades of the deeps, that is not good! Not good at all."
[2023/02/12 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: The woman is likewise backing up, looking quite pale and shaken.
[2023/02/12 15:20] Alicia Frakture: Leesha doesn't look."It just smells like that before seasonings.. don't be picky."
[2023/02/12 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Let's give this place the laugh. You got a tent? Let's camp out, fuck this!"
[2023/02/12 15:21] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben pauses, blinks, and turns to stare at Leesha. "....Half Orc. Right. Of course you would think of it that way."
[2023/02/12 15:22] Alicia Frakture: Leesha looks at Debben."Of course I *Asumming now she sees it* I i I I was talking about dinner."
[2023/02/12 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: (You do, but the shock for you is just a little tingle.)
[2023/02/12 15:23] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "We're going outside," Debben declares. "I am not entertaining that idea, we are -not- that short on rations."
[2023/02/12 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Right, yeah, let's get outta here!"
[2023/02/12 15:24] Alicia Frakture: Leesha rolls her eyes."Fine you two go out there keep the door open and I will finish the stew and bring it out.*How old do the corpses look?*
[2023/02/12 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: They've been dead and hanging for some time. Could be a few weeks.
[2023/02/12 15:25] Alicia Frakture: *Can I roll intelligence to see if she figures something out?*
[2023/02/12 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Wisdom might be best, if you're trying to deduce something?
[2023/02/12 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Intelligence is more based on knowledge
[2023/02/12 15:26] Alicia Frakture: *Bangs her head on the table*
[2023/02/12 15:26] Alicia Frakture: *Softly*
[2023/02/12 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: a 1 succeeds either way
[2023/02/12 15:26] Alicia Frakture: *Oh goodie*
[2023/02/12 15:27] Alicia Frakture: Leesha looks at the two."You know these bodies are basically jerky right? whatever was here might be long gone by this point"
[2023/02/12 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: Leesha looks over the bodies. It's clear the crowns of the skulls were cleanly cut, and the brains carefully removed - as far as you can tell, at this late stage - and for a 1, a bonus: the farmhouse looks extra ordinarily tidy. Nothing is out of place - again as far as you can tell
[2023/02/12 15:28] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "It's very bad luck to sleep in the same tunnels as the dead." Debben declares with a confidence born of tradition. "It's just asking for their ghosts to try and possess you. Even if there's probably some posseseed cat running around at the moment."
[2023/02/12 15:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Yeah, sod that, I'm not sleeping next two two stiffs. Who took the brains, anyway? Supposing they come back?"
[2023/02/12 15:30] Alicia Frakture: Leesha shakes her head."Fine Stew will be ready soon."Before getting up to try and take the bodies down and move them out of the house and around back.
[2023/02/12 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: The bodies are easily taken down. Even easier to manhandle... orchandle? the bodies out, despite the fact they're stretched out and stiff
[2023/02/12 15:32] Alicia Frakture: Bury 'em proper after food.
[2023/02/12 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm not sure either Debben or the woman have particularly strong appetites or appreciation, somehow
[2023/02/12 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: What next? It's getting very dark.
[2023/02/12 15:34] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Dwarves have dark vision, no? Low light at the least.
[2023/02/12 15:34] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben is rushing getting their tent up.
[2023/02/12 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: Both of you have infravision; beware this isn't the same as vision
[2023/02/12 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: You can detect heat differences; a band of bandits will stand out like they're on fire. The poles of the tent, the spade you're digging a hole with... less so.
[2023/02/12 15:35] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Dwarven trick, keep the metal tools against your skin so they get warm and visible in the dark!
[2023/02/12 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: ha! Good one. Yes there are certain implications, yes that is possible. Good idea right there.
[2023/02/12 15:36] Alicia Frakture: Leesha finishes the stew and brings it out."Eat it or don't, It should travel well. We can sleep in shifts for safety. I'll take first watch" *Since it is dark she will have to wait on digging the graves*
[2023/02/12 15:37] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "There's no bodies in that stew, right?"
[2023/02/12 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: The woman just shudders and burrows into her sleeping bag, and literally buries herself in it
[2023/02/12 15:38] Alicia Frakture: I'm a little hurt by that. I mean it does have some meat but it's stuff we got for supplies
[2023/02/12 15:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: Night falls. Other than the odd shooting star overhead, nothing much happens. Shifts change and finally the horizon brightens and the dawn chorus starts
[2023/02/12 15:40] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "You were talking about seasonings," she answers back, sighing. "I'm not expecting to sleep well tonight."
[2023/02/12 15:40] Alicia Frakture: Seasonings, salt, pepper things like that. It's not much but...
[2023/02/12 15:42] Alicia Frakture: Sun comes up bodies get buried. Leesha looks to the cleric."Wanna say a few words?"
[2023/02/12 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: the woman looks surprised. "What? Why?"
[2023/02/12 15:45] Alicia Frakture: Leesha shakes her head."Don't clerics do that?"
[2023/02/12 15:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: She blinks and looks at you, then the two fresh plots. She goes over, and bows her head. You hear muttering... "From the ground we come, to the ground we return. Flowers bloom and pass. May the Lady of Flowers receive you, may you blossom forever in her garden." She pauses a few, then steps away.
[2023/02/12 15:47] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben crosses herself (really more of a pick shape) and silently prays, before stepping away and moving to help pack up. "Something is wrong in these woods. If we're lucky it's just a single mad axe-man. If we're not lucky...."
[2023/02/12 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Yeah, let's just get going!"
[2023/02/12 15:49] Alicia Frakture: Leesha walks back to her stuff and the stew and hoists it up. "Then let's put some distance between us and this area." We can keep the stew for lunch."
[2023/02/12 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: The sun rises as the farmhouse recedes into the distance. Not much happens as you walk... and walk...
[2023/02/12 15:51] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Ridcully gave us usable directions to the pie-witch's place, right?
[2023/02/12 15:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...finally! You see stone walls, clearly the boundary of some large house. A huge gateway suggests at waggons coming and going, along a rather unkempt and overgrown gravel driveway.
[2023/02/12 15:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: They got you in the vicinity!
[2023/02/12 15:53] Alicia Frakture: Leesha nods before looking up."Looks like we made it."
[2023/02/12 15:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: What do you plan doing?
[2023/02/12 15:54] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Yep. Hopefully it's the right place," she adds, walking up to what looks like the gateway. Is it currently open or closed?
[2023/02/12 15:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: The gateway is quite ruined. The gates or doors are long gone, it's just a huge arch you can drive a waggon through, although the gravel drive is rather overgrown and it's anyones' guess where the road is and where the garden is now. There's bushes, and a huge gnarly tree, with some rather wizened bark that almost looks like a face.
[2023/02/12 15:57] Alicia Frakture: Leesha is gonna walk carefully to the tree and check it out
[2023/02/12 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: You walk to the tree. You check it out. It's an old apple tree.
[2023/02/12 15:58] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben eyes the tree suspiciously, and inspects the poor repair of the gateway and drive. "I'm concerned about how long this house has been left to nature. Like the other farm house."
[2023/02/12 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: As far as you can tell, a long time. Years? You're a dwarf... your kind usually mine deep underground.
[2023/02/12 16:01] Alicia Frakture: Leesha lightly knocks on the tree.
[2023/02/12 16:02] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Some of the "Hill Dwarves" do stuff close to the surface, but Debben is herself a mountainhomer. She heads towards the main door of the manor, inspecting its age as well before knocking.
[2023/02/12 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: The trees's bark twists and scrunches and shifts. The face appears to be scowling and two knotholes appear to glare at you under a furrowing brow. "Oi! Whaddya want?" comes a great bass voice.
[2023/02/12 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: Debben misses all but the voice, as she knocks on the door. You can tell the house has stood for a century and hasn't been maintained in twenty, thirty years. The knocks echo on the door.
[2023/02/12 16:04] Alicia Frakture: Leesha looks surprised and yet happy she guessed right."Sorry to bother you. but i gotta ask, do you know what happened to this place?"
[2023/02/12 16:04] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: She blinks, backs up from the door and glances between it and the tree.
[2023/02/12 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Yeah, of course I know! What do you think I am, some fresh sapling?"
[2023/02/12 16:06] Alicia Frakture: Ohh would you tell us please? *Wonder if her using please messes with the Cleric*
[2023/02/12 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Bah! Can't you see I'm trying to sleep and catch some sun!"
[2023/02/12 16:10] Alicia Frakture: True but if you tell us we can get what we need and then leave you to your nap
[2023/02/12 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: Charisma check, d20
[2023/02/12 16:11] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: In a sudden flash of insight, Debben is about to tell Leesha to hurry up and ask about the people who live here, before turning her gaze upwards to the branches of the talking tree, checking for fruit.
[2023/02/12 16:11] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: +
[2023/02/12 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: A 16? "Pfft. I think I'll skip telling you anything and just get back to my nap."
[2023/02/12 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Plenty of apples on the tree
[2023/02/12 16:14] Alicia Frakture: Leesha sighs "Is there something you might want in trade?"
[2023/02/12 16:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: "For you to go away. The farther, the better."
[2023/02/12 16:15] Alicia Frakture: Okay tell us and we will finish our work and then go away
[2023/02/12 16:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: The branches shake and the leaves rustle, in a loud vegetable sigh. "One question, then you go away."
[2023/02/12 16:17] Alicia Frakture: /me nods."What happened to this place and those who lived here?"
[2023/02/12 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Raiders and bandits. You'd think old Weatherwax would've invested in guards or something, but oh no. Anything else? Ask the little green runts that moved in after. Those that are coming round the corner will be happy to talk to you, I'm sure. Now bye!"
[2023/02/12 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: As the features on the tree fade a little, you do indeed hear a chittering coming from creatures, coming round the side of the stone house....
[2023/02/12 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Gosh, what a cliffhanger this is ;)
[2023/02/12 16:20] Alicia Frakture: *Indeed*
[2023/02/12 16:20] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: eeep
[2023/02/12 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: work tomorrow and I am over time
[2023/02/12 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: Tune in next time, to see what you face!
[2023/02/12 16:21] Alicia Frakture: Sleep well Mistress
[2023/02/12 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me riffles hair, distributes hugs
[2023/02/12 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: night you two :)
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